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Nursing Home Quality as a Public Good

David C. Grabowski, Jonathan Gruber and Joseph J. Angelelli

No 12361, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: There has been much debate among economists about whether nursing home quality is a public good across Medicaid and private-pay patients within a common facility. However, there has been only limited empirical work addressing this issue. Using a unique individual level panel of residents of nursing homes from seven states, we exploit both within-facility and within-patient variation in payer source and quality to examine this issue. We also test the robustness of these results across states with different Medicaid and private-pay rate differentials. Across our various identification strategies, the results generally support the idea that quality is a public good within nursing homes. That is, within a common nursing home, there is very little evidence to suggest that Medicaid-funded residents receive consistently lower quality care relative to their private-paying counterparts.

JEL-codes: I11 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-07
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Published as David C. Grabowski & Jonathan Gruber & Joseph J. Angelelli, 2008. "Nursing Home Quality as a Common Good," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 90(4), pages 754-764, 08.

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